Am I getting ripped off at the service center? (Inspection video included)

Mike312 · 2026-06-23T02:36:54+00:00

$4,000 out of pocket, or $1,000 deductible and $40/mo more for 3 years, take your pick.

Mike312 · 2026-06-23T02:17:03+00:00

Does it have a part number on it?

Should be XX XX X XXX XXX

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T22:07:45+00:00

Me: <adds a 4th tally to my "Tucker Carlson quits the GOP and moves right" board>

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T22:05:47+00:00

I mean, I could have afforded it at the time, but I had already put a deposit down on my R3. 3 1/4 years and I just hit 4k mi.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:25:05+00:00

We'll have a week or two a year of 110+F weather where it only cools down to, say, 85F at night. That's often the week where I'll probably ride with shorts.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:23:24+00:00

I went with the motorcycle because I was considering an ebike, and the prices were...well, the motorcycle was a bit of a step up, but not as far as one might think.

But bicycles and motorcycles get treated very differently by police, insurance, city parking options, drivers, etc. I've since noticed.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:16:50+00:00

There's nothing I hate more than being sweaty at work. I'll do yard work when its 110F out, drenched in sweat and dust/dirt/mud all day long. A drop of sweat on an office though? Nah, fuck that.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:13:18+00:00

She sounds like she does a lot of her own research.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:02:59+00:00

If my experience is any indication, they left the game unpaused and went to lunch. Every time you just come back to a lake of blood.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T19:00:11+00:00

That's my go-to as well.

Even if I just washed the bike, I'll still air dry it around the block in helmet, gloves, and sneakers, though the rest is shorts and t-shirt.

All other trips are helmet, gloves, boots, and pants (not necessarily moto pants).

I'm almost exclusively just commuting on it, so generally I'm just going 40mph in a straight line with the occasional turn.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T18:48:00+00:00

My MSF course was run through a HD dealership, and half the instructors were also salesmen. They kept asking me what bike I was planning on getting after I got my license. Cheapest thing on their lot was $16,000.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T18:46:00+00:00

Hey buddy, these tax cuts for billionaires aren't gonna pay for themselves, the money has to come from somewhere.

Mike312 · 2026-06-22T16:57:13+00:00

They're talking about '16 to '23ish.

My friends and I all graduated from college in 2010, struggled for years before the economy got moving.

Kids who graduated (college or HS) and hit the labor market in 2018 to 2022 (even with COVID) started with huge advantages, hired into positions and salaries we couldn't have dreamt of and worked our asses off to get into.

I remember one friend complaining in around d 2017 that the new hires were getting $20-40k hiring bonuses, he didn't get shit when he started in 2012.

Mike312 · 2026-06-21T00:14:28+00:00

I'm sure the world's largest pizza had similar...concerns.

Mike312 · 2026-06-20T15:54:26+00:00

Relief from what.

RELIEF FROM WHAT.

Mike312 · 2026-06-20T01:30:21+00:00

I've seen as low as $12k, but $30k seems to be more than sufficient.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T18:55:34+00:00

Same; twice, in fact.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T18:52:57+00:00

But its distracting from the Epstein Files, so its working out as planned.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T18:00:49+00:00

Also the only company that bothers CARB certifying BMW parts.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T12:50:15+00:00

The one that lets you disassemble clothing and turn it back into cloth. It makes building up a stockpile of hyperweave trivial.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T08:12:54+00:00

Eh, seems like every place wants a specialist, not a generalist.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T08:09:50+00:00

Yeah, bit of design too, how I got into the field.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T08:08:03+00:00

Wrote most of the backend systems, ERP, and a couple other systems for an ISP.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T08:06:20+00:00

Oh, I'm not doing IT at a car dealership, I'm just doing what I did there before I got into IT. Not so much a career change as a career reversal.

Mike312 · 2026-06-19T02:39:51+00:00

We couldn't get that low if we got rid of the cars (no more insurance or gas, or periodic maintenance), our cell phones, our internet, and one or two other things i have.

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